“…Today's 10Gb/s optical interconnects will be insufficient for handling future data bandwidth demands [5,6]. Several possible methods for increasing the transmission capacity in data centers have been proposed, capitalizing on different amplitude [7,8], polarization [9,10], wavelength [11,12] and time [13,14] multiplexing schemes. A recent approach garnering remarkable attention is mode division multiplexing (MDM) in MMF, in which several channels are transmitted in mutually orthogonal fields through modes and then demultiplexed into separate channels in an attempt to break through current capacity barriers in data centers [15][16][17][18].…”